New Quality Inheritance Metrics for Object-Oriented Design

Abstract

Metrics are used to help a software engineer in quantitative analysis to assess the quality of the design before a system is built. Object-Oriented (OO) design is becoming more popular in software development environment and OO design metrics are essential parts of software environment. The primary purpose of this paper is to analytically evaluate against the Weyuker’s property and empirically validate, a proposed inheritance metrics (against a three versions of the same project) that can be used to measure the quality (especially focus on the quality factors “Reuse” and “Design Complexity”) of an OO systems in terms of the using class inheritance tree.